tkingfisher: correctdichotomy: (image credit to Dan Hoare on twitter) I ONLY JUST LEARNED ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF THIS MUSHROOM????? WHICH ERUPTS FROM AN EGG BEFORE UNCURLING HELLISH ARMS, EXPOSING ITS STICKY MASS OF SPORES TO BE SPREAD BY FLIES ATTRACTED … Continue reading →

eccentric-nae: weareblackroyalty: nomorefreerandy: So last night 3 black girls at UALBANY were assaulted on the bus by 3 white males while being called niggers and my university did not even properly respond to the situation until they saw people were … Continue reading →

thegreatweissshark: swevani: sometimes people dont really understand that having schizophrenia doesn’t permalock me as an angsty 13 year old evanescence fan I always got the cray-cray look whenever I told people about my schizophrenia. This sums it up pretty damn … Continue reading →

itsalburton: actuallyasisterofbattle: themercuryjones: Congratulations, B.o.B., a dude more than 2,000 years ago figured out what you still can’t understand despite the benefits of free public school, generations of documentation and the internet at your fucking fingertips. To be honest, I’m … Continue reading →

volnuttn7: ninten1: femicunt: project-radfem: Okay, ladies, you see this? Look at it! This is a door security bar. Now, it’s pretty obvious how it works, but let me explain anyway. When you are in your home/apartment, you brace this between … Continue reading →

I will defend furries to my fucking grave. When I was in the hole and needed money for college, not a SINGLE person from tumblr or deviantART ordered a commission. Sometimes people would ask about prices and reply, “Oh, nevermind, that’s too expensive.” I felt miserable.

In a fit of desperation, I brushed off my old Furaffinity account and revamped it. It was full of old, outdated bullshit and still had my “Taco pancakes!!! XDDD” aesthetic embedded in the info box. I had a lot of work to do.

When I was done, I started following and talking to people, I made an art shop, I started posting things and providing commission info.

Within a few weeks, I had my first customer. After a month, I had a full queue of commissions lined up to go. I have $250 in my PayPal wallet left after paying for my textbooks and part of my tuition – and I’m still getting more business!

And you know what my most common comment was? “Your art really should cost more.” These were often followed by $10-20 tips. I was fucking flabbergasted.

So yeah, go ahead and make fun of furries. Undermine the hours of work that goes into their art and fursuits. But they are more willing to pay for art than the tumblr and deviantART community COMBINED, despite all the pro-artist uwu bullshit I see every other page on this damned site.

pepperandpals: (Source) (Source) (Picture Source) While other parrots will nest in tree hollows and crevasses, the Quaker Parakeet takes a different approach. They will build elaborate nests out of sticks and twigs. These nests have different chambers for different purposes. … Continue reading →